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DOCTOR TAKES FALL OUT OF
FREE DISPENSARIES
' A slam at conditions in Chicago's
5 "free" dispensaries was registered by
f. Dr. B. H. Breakstone, chairman of
?i the Medical Societies1 ..Committee of
,l abuse of medical charity.
( That graft is collected in the free
' dispensaries, that poor patients are
51 charged more than the law allows for
medicine, that patients are not given
I proper care but are rushed through
ji the hospital to make room for others
h so that the young doctors will get
L credit for "handling" another case,
I are the conditions hinted at by the
I physician.
"The free dispensaries should be
open in the evening," said Dr. Break
stone. "Poor people have to lay off
from work to go to the hospital, so
that for them the treatment is more
costly than a hired doctor."
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TO HIT FOR TEN-HOUR DAY.
A ten-hour day for railroad em
ployes throughout the country will be
asked by the railroad unions at the
next meeting of congress. This, if
passed, will take the place of the six-teen-hour
law now in force.
The General Managers' Ass'n,
composed of railroad heads, will
fight the propose ladw. They say
that a ten-hour day would force them
to employ twice as many men as they
now hire.
The union will ask several other
changes. They are expected to de
mand universal signal systems for
railroads, the standardization of all
side and overhead clearances to avoid
accidents to trainmen and the grant
ing to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission of the right to regulate the
construction of and appliances on
steel cars.
CHEAPER FOOD FOR THE KIDS
Cheaper food for the school kids
is the promise of the board of educa
tion if plans being made now are
gone through with.
The board intends to take over the 1
restaurants in the public schools and
operate them for the benefit of the
pupils.
It is believed that a saving of 15
per cent will be effected in this man
ner. "We have found that we can give
better food to the pupils at about
15 per cent less than they are being
charged in some schools," said Mrs.
E. P. Young. "We expect to operate
all our lunchrooms soon."
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JUDGE FOELL REFUSES TO SET
INJUNCTION ASIDE
Judge Charles M. Foell refused to
set aside the injunction he issued to
the United States Broom and Brush
Co. restraining the picketing of
strikers at that plant. Att'y Dan
Cruice claimed that, this injunction
was granted on an insufficient state
ment of facts.
The injunction issued by Judge
Foell is one of the most severe ever
Issued in a strike. It prohibits the
strikers or any one connected with
the union even appearing on streets
approaching the factory of the broom
company. It forbids any members of the
union visiting the homes of strike
breakers or sending letters or circu
lars. The United States Broom and
Brush Co. formerly manufactured in
the Joliet, HL, and Jackson, Mich.,
state prisons under prison contract
labor. Driven out of prison labor,
they employed foreign girls to do
work that is done by men In every
other broom factory in the country
and paid these girls a price of about
one-third of what is paid other work
ers at this trade.
The girls went on a strike about
six weeks ago and since that time on
their complaint of the treatment they
had been compelled to endure while
working in this factory, William
Wright, a foreman, was found guilty
of lewd actions and indecent actions
and fined $25 in the Morals Court.
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